Tigers and the environment itself were huge issues in India.

I am talking here about something very specific - British attempts to control the salt manufacturing industry in Bengal in the late 18th and early 19th century. The British wanted a total monopoly on salt manufacturing and trade. They basically created a system by which they determined how much salt would be manufactured in Bengal every year and then they would farm out the manufacturing contracts to various manufacturing areas where malangis - poor peasants who manufactured salt on a seasonal basis would manufacture salt from the brackish waters of the rivers of lower Bengal. The malangis would then sell this salt to the British government (actually the government of the East India Company in Calcutta) on the pre-agreed rate and then it would be sold wholesale at British determined rates to Indian traders who would sell it at various retail markets

This entire monopoly system was bound around with numerous rules and codes that were often revised. The largest hazard to this system was salt smuggling or rather the numerous occurrences when the Malangis would sell salt to unlicensed traders on their own account, or would make extra salt to sell. the issue was that the British system ignored many nuances of the pre-colonial salt manufacturing systems where salt was sold at discounted reports or just gifted under old customs to certain groups in the village. The British of course could not tolerate such incursions on their monopoly. So salt manufacturing was closely supervised, both by British appointed Indian authorities as well as British superintendents.

This brings us to the misguided British attempts to expand salt manufacture by building new salt manufacturing fields in the deltaic dense tropical jungle called the Sunderbans. Environmentally speaking, this was a very hazardous area prone to tidal surges, storms, floods etc and full off venomous snakes, crocodiles, and of course the Royal Bengal Tiger. Attempts were made to build salt manufacturing camps in the Sunderbans. To the British, it was a perfect location, with plenty of brackish water in the tidal rivers and enough trees to provide fuel for the boiling of salt. They planned to transport the manufactured salt by boat. So a number of such places were made in the 1790s. But staffing these areas became a huge challenge. The Malangis would often refuse to go out to the Sunderbans. To them, the Sunderbans were an integral part of their folk culture, replete with customs and rituals. It was a place that could only be entered into after certain ceremonies had been performed and was not a good place to stay in for extended lengths of time. So absenteeism from the manufacturing places called "khallaries" was common with Malangis just abandoning the contract and fleeing. Those that did stay started to fall victim to the denizens of the jungle. There are numerous reports of attrition in the number of the Malangis and they fell victim to snakebite and when the ferocious tigers started stalking the camps.

Of course the British could not let this state of affairs stand. British officers were dispatched to control the situation directly. This however was not a sustainable situation. The archives are full of letters referring to British superintendents being forced to come back to Calcutta or even depart for England due to how sick they got in the jungle. The British reports to the Governor General in Council (the supreme governmental body in India, comprising the Governor General of India and the members of his Council) mention the depredations of tigers again in the mid 1790s. Moreover, sudden storms in the late summer and the monsoon often caused boats containing salt to capsize, leading to wholesale losses. Eventually it came to be understood by the late 1790s that making salt in the Sunderbans was a losing proposition. The Roymongal salt district which covered this area basically became defunct by 1798.

Meanwhile British efforts to expand salt manufacturing in East Bengal met with similar challenges. East Bengal seen on a map is essentially a giant delta formed through the confluence of the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers. It was a series of forested islands criss-crossed by rivers, rivulets, streams and tidal channels. To smugglers, this was a dream landscape and they could easily convey their salt everywhere by boat, using local pilots. The British were forced to send out their own nighttime boat patrols but they met with mixed success. In one dramatic incident, one government boat actually caught a smuggler boat, but the smuggers were ready. They suddenly threw earthen pots at the government boat. It turned out that the pots contained venomous snakes the smugglers had been saving for such an eventuality. This naturally caused a panic in the government boat, and the smugglers escaped.

A lot more can be said about the troubled landscape of salt manufacturing in India, but while some research has been done about this, there is a lack of material about the environmental aspect. Everything I have said above, is gleaned from primary sources - the handwritten files of the Proceedings of the Revenue Board, Salt Board and Salt Department, contained in really bad condition in the West Bengal State Archives in Kolkata where I had the chance to read through these while assisting on a research project.

I hope this answer helps and is up to the standards of the subreddit. If you want to know more about Britain and Indian wildlife, look up India’s Environmental History From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period: A Reader Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan, Permanent Black, 2012.